Sustainability in Urban Form

Semester Project

Maspero's Triangle Analysis

Presented To: Dr. Aly El Faramawy

Presented By: Omar Samy Roshdy

Yasser Assaf

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  Introduction

March 2013 has witnessed big protests followed by a sit-in in front of the TV &
Radio building “Maspero” in Cairo’s downtown, the protest that made the whole
media at that time refer to, in addition many talk shows began to set up on air phone
calls between those footpads and the governor and his deputy. The broadcaster got
the governor’s deputy, General Seif Al Islam on air; greeting him and reporting the
current situation, that the residents of Maspero triangle “Bolaq Abu Al Ela” are
blocking the way down and they want their demands to be fulfilled, as they claim
that the former governor “Abdel Qawi Khalifa” gave them promises and none of the
spoken words were done. Quickly the Deputy Governor answered that he attended
all the previous meetings with the former governor and that they settled on keeping
the people in their place, in the same area of Maspero triangle and that “64”
buildings will be built to accommodate those people. He completed, this area is
under development; so any costs the government will not afford it, only the new
investors and owners will afford all the costs of the new projects and the new
buildings for Maspero people. He ended up by saying that in their meetings the
Governor permitted the residents to renovate their homes with the aid of engineers
from the neighborhood and that the government doesn’t own any land in the area.
The broadcaster wanted to mess with the Deputy and told him that they complain of
being ignored, the Deputy interrupted his words and answered that they met the
people many times, sat up meetings and our doors are wide open at anytime, they
or their representatives will come to me and we will discuss.

The broadcaster had an intervention on air with a member from MYA (Maspero
Youth Association), the member didn’t deny the general’s words but he asked for a

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real action, not just promises, as they took lots of previous promises, but none of
them were made or even was formally mentioned by the government, rather than
the typical relievers. The Deputy repeated the same words about the “65” buildings
and ended the call by setting up a meeting with the MYA representative the day
after.

Interviews from the protests were made by the reporters asking a typical protest
question, why are you here and what are your demands? All the people there had
different answers but all under the same umbrella of staying in the area of Maspero
and saving them from houses collapses, some wanted the governmental plan for the
64 building and others wanted to renovate their houses even if on their cost. It was a
mix between threatening, calling for help and being afraid to die under their houses
or to be forced to leave to another place/left in streets. "No for relocation, yes for
development" “‫ ”ﻻ ﻟﻠﺗﻬﺟﻳﺭ ﻧﻌﻡ ﻟﻠﺗﻁﻭﻳﺭ‬that was the sign people of Maspero raised on
that day; what provoked them is that the Governor ordered to relocate some street
vendors to be put in a land on Bolaq’s area border, and totally ignoring the houses
that collapse every now and then so they went angry why aren’t you letting us to
renovate our houses or why aren’t you building us the 64 towers? In the era of a new
elected regime of the MB, people wanted to take their rights by any means especially
when the police presence was lacking after the 25th of January revolution.

 Research Problem
More than 16 million Egyptians live in inhumane conditions, while more than six
million formal housing units have been reported vacant; housing advocates warn that
slum crisis could get worse. Inhabitants are forced to live in inhumane settlements,
because of the severe shortage of affordable housing in the cities, suffer from lack of

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electricity and sewage services, and are subjected to mistreatment by the state,
including regular forced evictions.
The fact that the government is bound by Egypt's new constitution, which is only
protecting legitimate private ownership, means that informal settlements will never
be recognized by the government and that slum inhabitants will be subjected to the
same treatment they received from the previous regime.

 Research Objective
As mentioned in the research problems, the government will never recognize
the slum inhabitants, we acquire to document and guide the inhabitant's needs in
the slums area, in order to achieve part of the study, to shed more light on the
idea and focus on the slum area inhabitants.
As in this research, choosing Maspero square or Traingle is a challenge as it is
the heart of the city center, surrounded by iconic buildings (Radio & Television
Building, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ramsis Hilton). In addition, there are few
iconic and dominant architectural buildings in this area to be preserved, and the
government has a plan to modify this area by demolishing it to turn it into an
administrative hub in Cairo, selling land plots to private sectors.

 Methodology

However, protests and sit-ins mean that there are some problems –mainly socially
most of the time- so that protests and the previous one (a year earlier) were a
normal result to what was going on in that mysterious triangle , that’s what we have
concluded.

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After digging deeper and interviewing some of the main stakeholders of Maspero
area as listed below:
Residents
Local land owners (residential units/ shops/ workshops)
Local tenants (residential units/ shops/ workshops)
Local representatives (Maspero Association to Defend the Land & Housing/ Maspero
NGO/ Bulaq Abo El Ela Local Committee/ Maspero Youth Association)
Surrounding neighborhood
The public
Governments
Ministry of Information
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ministry of Antiquities
Ministry of Planning
Ministry of Awqaf
Informal Settlement Development Fund (ISDF)
Investors
Kuwait co.
Maspero co.
Saudi co.

After a quick survey in the area, we found that the most powerful stakeholders
were represented in MYA (Maspero Youth Association), the residents, the investors’
companies (Kuwait Company had the biggest share among them) and the

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governments. So we managed to try to talk and interview each of those parties
separately, trying to figure out the whole true story behind those protests.
Any slum community like Bolaq has its own character and its own sustainable life
style whether social (the biggest share) or economic or environmental; those
parameters change from one place to the other depending on the types of problems,
here Bolaq is located in Cairo’s downtown in a very significant area with a
magnificent water front near Tahrir square, behind the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Maspero media tower and Hilton Ramses hotel. It is a very old area, Upon surveying
the houses age we found that the oldest one stands since 1890 and the newest are
since the 40ies, the total area of Bolaq is around 68 feddans inhabited by 19,000
residents distributed on three sectors. On wandering in the streets of Bolaq you will
find that the people are simple and poor and that they earn their living from almost
anything, despite the presence of lawyers, teachers, accountants, etc. the majority
has a vocation (builders, plumbers, mechanics, etc.) and others just work inside the
area on serving others (clothes washing, small kiosks, food vending, etc.). Streets are
narrow and paved with hexagonal interlocking blocks / paved for vehicular passing
for the mechanics workshops and main streets, short historical buildings of 2-3
stories are the most common there, as well as the collapsed buildings which now
became a place for garbage and litter to be thrown. They have a sewage system but
the overall health or the hygienic condition is poor, due to lack of hygienic concepts
in their minds as well as the garbage areas in the collapsed buildings ruins.
It is an economic and social sustainable community, homogeneously living, trading
with each other, knowing the families and the neighbors’ roots so they can feel safe
about their children and their homes. Almost no bullying acts happen in the area;
younger people respect the elders and respect the ones who are respectful by being
polite or the most powerful in the whole area.

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 On interviewing some of the residents whether they like to stay here in Bolaq or
not, almost all the answers were around being born in Bolaq and that they would
never think to leave it: "‫ "ﻧﻣﺷﻲ؟ ﻧﻣﺷﻲ ﻧﺭﻭﺡ ﻓﻳﻥ؟ ﺍﺣﻧﺎ ﺍﺗﻭﻟﺩﻧﺎ ﻫﻧﺎ ﻭ ﻫﻧﻣﻭﺕ ﻫﻧﺎ‬others kept
complaining about the idea of relocation to 6th of October or Al Nahda as they are
“desert”, “our childhood, dreams, hopes and future is related to this place”. Most of
them were saying those words unconsciously upon asking them do you love this
place? They just need new homes, whether the governmental plan for the 64 towers
or any other solution to keep them in the same place and prevent houses from
collapsing.
So after couple of days surveying the buildings conditions, observing people’s
social habits and making them familiar with our presence, we managed to meet the
dominating association MYA and the Kuwait Company delegate; actually the
company delegate meeting was a lucky chance, as he saw us walking in front of his
office so we heard him talking about our activity and saying he wants to invite us to
know what exactly are we up to, so we managed to take the chance and go greet
him.

 Company Delegate Meeting (Investors)

After asking us whom we work for and some other interrogation, he started to talk
and felt free to say the company’s intentions. First of all he is a retired army officer
and started to work for the company a couple of years ago; their office is located in
an important street called “Zahr Al Gammal”, he started his talking about the
importance of Maspero area and how will the company be able to help the people
have a better life whether by giving them money to leave the place or giving them a
small area on the edge (7 feddans) to build them the 64 towers; but after giving them

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the apartments they will sell it as its value now become higher so they will leave
anyway. It was just a nice beginning to make us feel that their company care about
the people and will help them, however the true intentions appeared as soon as we
asked about the ownership of the homes and lands to the residents; angrily he
started to yell that the people have no rights in the land and its all owned by three
companies (the Kuwaiti, Saudi and Maspero company), so we managed to go further
with him and tell him that we saw the ownership contracts of some owners. He
started to shout and his tone changed into a rude one, “those contracts are forged
and they are not real.” He said, they have no rights in the land or the houses and if
the company wants to remove them, it can do that easily. He completed that he has
the map that shows the area of land owned by the company, so we saw it, and
were shocked of the central bulk owned by that company, he completed yelling
trying to convince us with that the company has the land but they will give some
money to the residents to leave; by chance a member of the MYA was passing –we
think that someone told him- and managed to enter the office, as soon as he stepped
inside, the delegate changed radically, he greeted the association member, offered
him a seat and started to talk about the rights of the residents in the new 64 towers
to be built and how it is planned for them to have a nice plot of land for the new
project; we were wondering how that guy was offending the people and now he is
completely on their side. He completed: ‫"ﺍﻟﻣﺷﺎﺭﻳﻊ ﺍﻟﻠﻲ ﻫﺗﺗﻌﻣﻝ ﻫﺗﺧﺩﻡ ﺳﻛﺎﻥ ﺑﻭﻻﻕ ﻭ ﻫﺗﺭﻓﻊ ﻣﻥ‬
."‫ ﻣﺳﺗﻭﻯ ﺍﻟﻣﻌﻳﺷﺔ ﺑﺗﻌﺗﻬﻡ ﻭ ﻫﺗﻌﻠﻲ ﻗﻳﻣﺔ ﺍﻻﺭﺽ ﻭ ﺍﻟﺷﻘﻕ‬Some quarrel happened between the
association member and the delegate about the land ownership whether it is the
residents’ or the companies’, from which we concluded that the land is distributed
into many shares; it belongs to some owners (residents), the three companies, the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Information. Most of the residents
have the rights to live and benefit from the monopolized land they are on, yet they

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don’t own it with a direct contract, others own the houses with a contract or renting
it with an old rent system.

After this meeting we settled with the member who came across the
delegate's office on a date to meet the association –most of its effective members-
we thanked each other and left.

(Zahr Al Gammal st.; wall graffiti saying “no for displacing”) (Small narrow “Atfa”)

 Maspero Youth Association Meeting

On the date we gathered with the members, and started with a simple open ended
question: "when the association start and what did triggered the idea?”
One of them started, the association began as an idea when we wondered how they
can sweep or displace us to other houses without giving choices; so we started to
meet each other, people with the same ideas and problems, and we got houses
removal warnings at the same time, ".‫ ﺑﻳﺕ ﺑﺣﺟﺔ ﺍﻟﺣﺭﻡ ﺍﻻﻣﻧﻲ‬96 ‫"ﻭ ﻣﺷﻛﻠﺕ ﺍﻝ‬

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 We tried to rephrase the question again:” ok would you please tell us the
exact timeline of the association formation and what caused it, and how many
inhabitants joined this association?”
This association is formed from a lot of people who started it to stand and negotiate
with the government, and now it is formed of many inhabitants ‫"ﻛﻝ ﺑﻳﺕ ﺍﻟﻛﺑﻳﺭ ﺑﺗﺎﻋﻭ‬
"‫ﻣﻧﺿﻡ ﻟﻠﺭﺍﺑﻁﺔ‬, Then he completed, the problems started since 1990 when the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs removed the residents in “hattaba” that land area occupied by the
Ministry nowadays, but of course it was a public benefit so we couldn’t argue; once
they stepped the first foot in displacing people, it will be repeated many times and
that’s what happened.
In 1992 after the earthquake that cracked many buildings in Egypt, Bolaq has
witnessed some major cracks in many buildings, so the government started to
interfere and displace the residents to Al Nahda. And since then, the companies
started to direct their efforts to take this land; moreover the governor’s efforts to
give us promises went all in vain, what provoked us at this period as well is that Doha
tower next to Hilton Ramsis, this land had an owner, who sold it to the hotel –all of
that is totally legal- the strange thing is that the government let the hotel build a
tower but for the residents of Bolaq Abu Al Ela, it is illegal and they can’t even
renovate the houses which are about to collapse. When we managed to talk about it
with the officials, they told us never talk about that issue again it is a sovereign
decision.
“Anyway let me complete to you”, another member said and completed his
colleague’s talk; the governor at that time –the earthquake year- sent a contractor to
demolish the cracked buildings: ‫ ﻣﻌﻅﻡ ﺍﻟﺑﻳﻭﺕ ﻫﻧﺎ ﺍﻟﺣﻳﻁﺎﻥ‬،‫"ﺍﻧﺕ ﺩﺍﺧﻝ ﺗﻬﺩ ﻓﻲ ﺣﺎﺭﺓ ﻋﻠﻲ ﻧﺎﺻﺭ‬
‫ ﻁﺏ ﺍﺳﺣﺏ ﺍﻟﻌﺭﻕ ﺑﺣﺟﺔ ﺍﻧﻙ ﺑﺗﻬﺩ ﺍﻟﺑﻳﺕ ﺩﻩ ﻭ ﻁﺑﻌﺎ ﺍﻳﻪ ﻳﻁﺭﺑﻕ ﺍﻟﺑﻳﺕ ﺍﻟﻠﻲ‬،‫ﺷﺭﻙ ﻳﻌﻧﻲ ﻣﻣﺩﻭﺩ ﻋﻠﻳﻬﻡ ﻋﺭﻕ ﻭﺍﺣﺩ‬
"‫ﺟﻧﺑﻪ‬

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He completed telling us an awful accident that happened, when the contractor
ordered to demolish the shared wall so that two labors were dead when the ceiling
collapsed as well as the neighboring house where a new bride and her mother died.
Moreover some people begged the contractor to leave a wall or a room in their
demolished house, so later they can ask for apartments with the rooms’ number they
have.
A third member intervened and said that this land is monopolized by the
government and was resolved parts of it by the companies; they convinced the poor
people of Bolaq to raise cases to resolve the monopolized land by the Ministry of
Awqaf and make up fake successors for the land ownership and buy the houses from
the people: ‫ ﻣﻥ ﺳﻛﺎﺕ ﻛﺩﻩ ﺗﺎﺧﺩ ﺍﻟﻛﻌﺏ ﺍﻟﻳﺩﻭﻫﻭﻟﻙ ﻭ ﺍﺳﺗﻠﻣﺕ‬،‫"ﻣﻥ ﺍﻻﺧﺭ ﻛﺩﻩ ﻟﻭ ﺍﻟﺑﻳﺕ ﻭﻗﻊ ﻭ ﺍﻻﺭﺽ ﺣﻛﺭ‬
"‫ ; ﺍﺳﺗﻠﻣﺕ ﻣﺳﺗﻠﻣﺗﺵ ﻓﻲ ﺩﺍﻫﻳﻪ‬the problem is that there we are original owners for the land
and they gave it away to successors and others, when those new owners died or
traveled the land became property of the Ministry of Awqaf (monopolized at this
point) so how do the companies get the original owners to resolve the land from
Awqaf Ministry and own it? Unless they have under the table deals with the
government who own the archives for the original owners.
From the year 1996 to 2000, when the governor at that time ordered to make a
survey for the number of residents and registering every family, people of Bolaq
started to cheat and renovate a basement room or roof lodges –from the period of
the earthquake leftovers-, faking that there are relatives living in those rooms, in
order to register more apartments. People kept asking the government to let them
renovate the buildings or have a permission to build new houses but it was always
rejected, until the year 2008 when it rained heavily to dissolve the buildings and
make ceilings collapse –two buildings collapsed at that time-; people got mad and

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started to have a real cause to gather and form the association instead of working
and awaking people individually, at that moment we started to collect data about the
whole story and to fight for our rights . In this period more than 40 houses were
taken for the sake of the companies, without any kind of survey or evaluation for the
houses situations. We took notices and warnings that our houses are considered as a
second degree danger, we were aware that if we didn’t make a recourse to those
warnings, our houses will be demolished and that is what was about to happen. A
couple of days later, the police came to demolish the houses unless we go to the
court and get the recourse code that we must do, to stop the execution. Rumors
prevailed in this period by the officials’ men down the streets that there is nothing
called recourse and it is useless. In 2008 a new rule was made that there is nothing
called recourse to the decisions indeed yet they made a committee -but it was
executed and worked with this rule in 2009-, called the tripartite committee, to
evaluate the buildings and to listen to the appeals: ‫ ﺍﻁﻌﻥ ﻋﻠﻰ‬،‫" ﻳﻌﻧﻲ ﺗﺑﻘﻰ ﺍﻟﺧﺻﻡ ﻭ ﺍﻟﺣﻛﻡ‬
.‫ﻗﺭﺍﺭ ﺍﻧﺕ ﻋﻣﻠﻬﻭﻟﻲ ﺍﺯﺍﻱ )ﻗﺎﻧﻭﻥ ﺍﻟﺑﻧﺎء ﺍﻟﻣﻭﺣﺩ( ﻣﺳﺗﺣﻳﻝ ﺍﻁﻌﻥ ﺍﻥ ﺍﻟﻘﺭﺍﺭ ﻏﻠﻁ‬
In 2010 we started to direct our activities to the media and the international
organizations, especially the Amnesty International who listened to the whole story;
later they sent an official letter to the Prime Minister “Ahmed Nazeef” demanding
him not to displace people by force from Maspero triangle. That was a really big thing
to us and we started to get confident and contacted many organizations to gain the
sympathy of other 27 international ones. When the officials realized that the people
of Bolaq became aware to their case and can defend themselves they permitted the
recourses in 2008 to take their chance in courts but after that year it’s over as the
rule been worked with in 2009. Otherwise police started to throw the furniture from
houses and demolish it, for those whose recourses were after 2008, yet people got

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mad, some wrote endorsement to take the responsibility of the people living in the
houses and others just refused and prevented the demolishing order execution.
The officials had the power and the rules to manipulate us and to turn the table on
us, by making a new committee called “security study” for those who refused the
execution of the demolishing order, considering it as a bullying act and have to be
jailed for it. Later on the 25th of Jan revolution started and houses kept collapsing but
every now and then something triggers us to go and make a protest: ‫"ﺍﻟﺛﻭﺭﺓ ﺟﺕ ﻭ ﻗﻠﻧﺎ‬
".‫ ﻣﻔﻳﺵ ﻣﻳﻥ ﻣﻌﺎﻧﺎ ﺍﻭ ﻣﺵ ﻣﻌﺎﻧﺎ ﺧﻼﺹ ﺍﻟﺭﻭﺡ ﻣﻔﻳﺵ ﺍﻏﻠﻰ ﻣﻧﻬﺎ‬،‫ ﻓﻘﻠﻧﺎ ﻧﻛﻠﻡ‬،‫ﻫﻳﻧﺩﺍﺱ ﻋﻠﻳﻧﺎ‬

They were also asked about the association's main role towards the Maspero
triangle and the danger acting upon them as inhabitants in the area. The three
interviewed personnel replied that the association's main role is to reject the crisis of
abandonment from their home land; this was all due to the fact that the government
uses inhabitant's ignorance of political/social life. The main role is achievable by
protesting in the streets as all general officials ignore their desires and requests as
their requests are essentials. ‫ ﻓﺒﻨﻌﺮﻑ ﻧﻮﺻﻞ‬،‫ ﺳﺎﻋﺘﻬﺎ ﺍﻻﻋﻼﻡ ﺑﻴﻌﻴﺮﻧﺎ ﺍﻫﺘﻤﺎﻣﻪ‬،‫"ﺑﻨﺘﻈﺎﻫﺮ ﻭ ﻧﻘﻔﻞ ﺍﻟﺸﺎﺭﻉ‬
"‫ﻟﻠﻤﺴﺆﻭﻟﻴﻦ ﻭ ﻧﻘﻮﻟﻬﻢ ﻁﻠﺒﺘﻨﺎ ﻭ ﺍﻳﻪ ﺍﻟﻠﻲ ﺍﺣﻨﺎ ﻣﺤﺘﺎﺟﻴﻨﻪ‬

As for the economic factor and financial statement of this neighbourhood or as

they call it Their Country "‫"ﻫﻲ ﺩﻱ ﺑﻠﺪﻧﺎ‬. They were asked about how much is the rental
value and if people do sell their own properties and how is it achievable? There were
definite answers around that there is no legal actions or legal rentals with papers, no
one do sell their property using official documents due to that most of the buildings
have removal orders by the government. However, brokers are available in the
neighbourhood controlling the buying and selling process targeting poor families who
are in need of money or inhabitants who are not actually living in their houses as

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they have inherited these houses from their grandparents with no real need for it.
The broker puts the range of the price for each plot area in the neighbourhood which
is of an average from 1,000 EGP to 2,000 EGP/m2.

They were requested to answer what are the qualities that are in Maspero's
triangle that could not be found in any other places, if the process is to re-locate
them outside this neighbourhood. Three factors were introduced as they replied
intelligently:

• Social Factor: ،( ‫ ﻋﻤﻞ‬/ ‫ ﻗﺮﺍﺑﺔ‬/ ‫ ﺍﻟﻨﺎﺱ ﻛﻠﻬﺎ ﻋﺎﺭﻓﺔ ﺑﻌﺾ )ﻧﺴﺐ‬،‫"ﺍﺭﺗﺒﺎﻁ ﺍﻟﻨﺎﺱ ﺑﺒﻌﺾ‬
"‫ﻟﻮ ﺭﺣﻨﺎ ﻣﻜﺎﻥ ﺗﺎﻧﻲ ﻫﻨﺤﺲ ﺍﻧﻨﺎ ﺿﺎﻳﻌﻴﻦ‬
• Practical Factor: As it is in Cairo's central Hub, residents in the
triangle either work in their same place next to their residents or
within a walking distance from downtown, there is no need for
transportation as there is a huge factor of sustainable work living.
• Psychological Factor: This neighbourhood as mentioned earlier feels
like it is their home land, or as they stated ،‫" ﻟﻮ ﻧﻘﻠﺘﻨﻲ ﻣﻦ ﻫﻨﺎ ﺍﻟﻲ ﺣﺘﺎ ﺗﻨﻴﻪ‬
‫ ﺍﻟﻤﻨﻄﻘﺔ ﺩﻳﻪ ﺑﺎﻟﻨﺴﺒﻠﻨﺎ ﻫﻲ ﺑﻠﺪﻧﺎ ﻣﻴﻨﻔﻌﺶ ﻧﻤﺸﻲ ﻭ‬،‫ﻛﺄﻧﻚ ﺍﻧﺖ ﺍﺗﻨﻘﻠﺖ ﻣﻦ ﻣﺼﺮ ﺍﻟﻲ ﺑﻠﺪ ﺗﻨﻴﺎ‬
"‫ﻧﺴﻴﺒﻬﺎ‬

Being a huge concern for the current residents, to be displaced from their
homes to another area (6 October / Nahda), the other alternative proposed by the
government in the past 2 years, to relocate the buildings for 1/3 of the triangle
constructing 64 tower buildings for the current residents to live in, and transforming
the other 2/3 to the administrative private sectors. This solution is well accepted by
residents as they find it the most convenient solution.

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 Another big concern, of this Youth Association is how they would keep the
residents and investors rights, and how would they deal with the investor by either
supporting / neglecting them. This was a long conversation; they were always
defending around themselves as residents as they need their rights to be preserved
by the government, having a positive side of the new projects that would be
constructed in the neighbourhood as the residents could start to be involved either in
the construction process or working as drivers, security, maintenance or any other
vacancies valid for them, which would support their social & economic sustainability.
On the other hand as it was asked whether they would support the investor or not,
they were very protective, indicating that the government plays a huge role in this
part as they would not hand them as preys to the investor (Predator). ‫"ﺍﻟﺤﻜﻮﻣﺔ‬
"‫ﻣﺘﺴﻠﻤﻨﻴﺶ ﻓﺮﻳﺴﺔ ﻟﻠﻤﺴﺘﺜﻤﺮ ﺳﺎﻋﺘﻬﺎ ﺍﺣﻨﺎ ﻧﺴﺎﻋﺪ ﻭ ﻧﻘﻒ ﺟﻨﺐ ﺍﻟﻤﺴﺘﺜﻤﺮ‬, we would help the investors as
long as they do support us, and help us financially to fund our new built houses as
they would support us and help them to end all troubles.

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Conclusion

In Conclusion, from our investigations and negotiations we came up with a list of

priorities towards the residents needs to feel safe and satisfied with actions, this list
was revised with the association to reflect their desires and needs, which is listed as
below. Priorities are listed in a descending order:
1. The 64 towers in Maspero triangle area.
2. The ease of communication with the officials and the government
3. Creating work opportunities for the new investment projects.
4. The missing services
5. Participating with the civilians in the development projects in the area.
6. Tackle and solve the health and environmental issues.
7. Raising the economic standards in general.
8. Widening the street to allow access of ambulance and fire extinguisher
vehicles.
9. Eradicating the problems of drugs.
10. Finding a solution for street peddlers.
11. Raise the cultural, health and aesthetic awareness of people.
12. Solving the problem of school dropouts.
13. Facilitating communications with the investors
14. Develop a dictionary for the league.
15. Exercising a political role.
16. Restoration and rebuilding vacant lands.

These priorities could be the starting point for the government to start
focusing on the group as a whole and to try to solve the problem that is facing this
district.

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